FOREIGN RELATIONS: For Better or for Worse

Most of the others were waiting as
Secretary of State Dean Acheson slipped through the side entrance of
the White House executive wing and strode into the Cabinet room. He
took his seat at the long, polished table, opened up his little tan
leather dispatch case, waited for the conference to begin. At the table
there were owlishly grave Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Acting
Commerce Secretary Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, intelligence
counselors and a brace of presidential aides. For the Defense
Department also present were Under Secretary Steve Early, Navy
Secretary...